Improvement in magazine fire-arms



P. BOYNTON. Magazine Fire-Arm.

Patented Jan. 3, 1860..

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N.PETEHS, FNOTU-LITHOGRPHER. WASHINGTON. D. C,

UNITED- STATES.

PATENT 'OFFIGE.

PAUL BOYNTON, OF CANTON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN MAGAZINE FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 26,646, dated January 3, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL BOYNTON, of the town of Canton, St. Lawrence county, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Arms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side view of a pistol, with the primer, magazines, and barrel in section. Fig. 2 is top view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of the barrel and magazines. Fig. 4 is a top and side view of thecharger.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The invention consists in certain means of providing for the loading of fire-arms at the breech with loose powder and ball from magazines under and attached to the barrel, whereby the operations of firing and reloading may be repeated very rapidly and with perfect safety.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation, by supposing a rifie or pistol barrel to be cut in two above the breechpin far enough to leave sufficient room for a charge of powder and ball, and their ends inserted into cams or wheels A B a little more than twice the diameter of the barrel, and, about half-way from the center of the cam to the outside, having abolt or pin,E, firmly screwed into the cam B, and running through the center of the cam A a to the end of the barrel or breech-pin, where it is secured by a nut, which will keep the two cams as tight together as may berequired to form a swivel-joint; or when the pistol is small, or nearly as small, as the model, this bolt may merely pass through the cam A c, and act as a pivot only, the joint being sufficiently secured by hasps M M over and under the joint. This joint is fastened by a latch and spring on the left hand side or underneath, and may be readily and handily raised with the thumb of the right hand. Next insert a tube, D, having a bore large enough to admit a ball that will slug in the barrel and roll down freely into the tube, into the opposite side from the barrel of the center of the cam 13, of nearly or quite the length of the barrel, which leaves a space between the barrel and the tube of nearly the diameter of the tube.

G is a sliding charger, placed at the base and between the barrel and tube, having a hole corresponding to the size of the bore of the barrel, and likewise to the hole at the base of the powder-magazine, and also to an outlet in the cam B into the chamber H.

L is a small steel spring, to force the charger back after it has been pressed into the socket to be filled with powder from the magazine.

Two plates of metal, attached to the barrel and tube, and reaching from one to the other, as well as to the charger Gr, comprise a magazine for the powder, which will hold as many charges, and more, if desired, as the tube will hold balls; and a four-inch tube will hold at least twelve balls.

Aplate covering the upper end of the magazine and tube, with a stopper to screw into the end of the tube, finishes the description of the pistol or rifle from the muzzle to the cam B.

0am A is attached to the chamber H by brazing or by screw. I is also, attached to cam A, for the purpose of securin g and forming a part of the breech.

The primer may be the same as the one attached to the model, 0, to use pill percussionpowder, or any of the patent self-acting primers of the day.

To load the fire-arm: after having filled the I magazines F and D with powder and ball, respectively, grasp the breech with the righthand, havingthe thumb on thelatch K; grasp the barrel and magazine, having one finger on the charger G, holding the weapon with muzzle up; press the charger into the socket until it fills with powder from the magazine; then let it be borne back by the spring 5 then press with the thumb or oneof the fingers of the right hand on the latch K, so as to unlatch the joint. Turn the breech to the right, and at a fourth part of a revolution the powder in' the charger is deposited in the chamber. At another quarter-revolution the ball from thetube D will drop into the chamber 011 the top of the powder. Then returnit to its place by a backward movement or by an entire revolution, and the pistol or rifle is loaded.

I do not broadly claim as my invention load-' ing a fire-arm from magazines attached to the 3. I also claim the method of loading by piece; but means of the charger G and the magazines F What Ido claim as my invention, and desire and D, in combination, substantially as dcto secure by Letters Patent, isscribed and set forth in these specifications.

1. The sliding charger G, when used for the purpose and in the manner substantially as PAUL BOYNTON.

specified.

2. 1 also claim the method of loading by re- Witnesses:

volvin g the barrel and magazines, substan- W. O. OOOKE,

tially as described in these specifications. JOSEPH BARNES. 

